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The Fifty-first General Meeting. 



of the church heraldry by the Eev. E. E. Dorling. If one hundred 

 and fifty subscribers can be secured it is hoped that this volume 

 may be issued as the first of a series, which shall in time include 

 the inscriptions of the whole of the county of Wilts. 



" The Museum. — The most notable gift during the past year has 

 been a series of flints, worked and unworked, from the Knowle Pit, 

 near Savernake, the joint gift of Messrs. W. and B. H. Cunnington 

 and Mr. J. H. Powell, displaying characteristics bearing on the 

 question of the origin of the polish, as well as of glacial markings, 

 &c, with most careful notes on the subject by Mr. W. Cunnington, 

 F.G.S. 



" The Library. — During the past year the filing of local news- 

 papers has been systematically begun. The Devizes Gazette is filed 

 by Mr. Medlicott ; The Devizes Advertiser by Mr. Edward Bouverie ; 

 The Salisbury Journal by the Eev. C. V. Goddard; The Wilts 

 County Mirror by Mr. H. W. Dartnell ; while The Wiltshire Times 

 is kindly given by the proprietors. The Committee hope that 

 some of our Members resident in "Warminster, Marlborough, and 

 Swindon will file for us copies of those local papers which we do 

 not now obtain. The Editor of the Magazine finds it impossible 

 to make his list of ' Wiltshire Books, Articles, &c.' as complete as 

 it ought to be from lack of access to copies of the various county 

 papers. 



"Excavations. — By the very kind permission of Miss Burgess, 

 the west wing of the Boman villa at Box, lying under her garden 

 and lawn, which had not previously been opened, was excavated 

 in the autumn of 1903. The expense of this extra work, as of the 

 previous excavation, was again borne by Mr. Heward Bell, and the 

 work, as before, was superintended, and the foundations planned, 

 by Mr. H. Brakspear, whose account of the result appears in the 

 current number of the Magazine. The thanks of the Society, as 

 representing the archaeologists of the county, are due both to Mr. 

 Heward Bell and Mr. Brakspear for the completion of this work, 

 as well as to Mr. T. Hardy, of Box, for the help which he has again 

 ungrudgingly given. 



" In the course of works connected with the re-erection of the 



